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Within the star system there are more and more actors who are engaged on the humanitarian and/or environmental front. Amongst them Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon, who, apart from all having a film coming out, for years have been engaged in sensitizing public opinion.

Ewan McGregor, now at cinemas with Haywire, action thriller directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh, is a Unicef ambassador and last September he launched a video-appeal in favor of children living in the tormented areas of Somalia and Ethiopia.

Jude Law, on screens in spring with 360 directed by Fernando Meirelles, is engaged in reminding the world that, if world peace remains an utopia, a day of peace per year can instead be reality with Peace one day, the event that supports the International Day of Peace, organized on September 21 by the United Nations.

A beauty with a soul also Scarlett Johansson – in April alongside Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo, directed by Cameron Crowe – since 2004 she has been ambassadress for Oxfam and since 2006 has been supporting (RED), a charity program based on the purchase of products half the proceeds of which are destined for the anti-Aids programs in Ghana, Rwanda, Swaziland, Lesothoand she is also the face of Planned parenthood.

Engaged in a mission becoming more and more possible, Matt Damon, founder of H2O Africaworking on the access of drinkable water and sanitation in India, Kenya, Bangladesh and Honduras. He also supports One international that is fighting aids and poverty in the Third World, and is ambassador for Onexone, a non-profit foundation that helps children in need.